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Sunday, May 18, 2014

Des Moines Medical Center Layoff Due to ObamaCare - In the meantime...

Remember that Obama took $500 billion up to perhaps $700+ billion, in more recent years, from Medicare? The cuts were made to services rendered to patients, payments made to doctors, and to home health providers. The Des Moines Mercy Medical Center is cutting $38 million from their budget. They are modifying manager pay, reducing pay for directorships, reducing hours for certain jobs and not filling empty positions. Out of a director, two managers and a supervisor managing 75 staffers, one position will be cut with a total of 29 losing their job. It doesn’t sound like a top-heavy situation to me, especially in a hospital environment. The layoffs are due to the low reimbursements for Medicare and Medicaid patients, and changes“associated with the Affordable Care Act.”

In the meantime, those on Medicare continue to pay a monthly premium that increases every year, as well as an additional monthly premium for a supplemental policy to pay for any portion that Medicare does not cover, and another payment for a dental plan.

In the meantime, Senator Ted Cruz says the paperwork necessary to maintain ObamaCare will require more than 190 million hours, annually. How many critical staffers will be cut to process this obscene mess?